Saturday 14 January 2012

14 January, 2012 Beachy Head Clear, cold & frosty NE 0-1

Sea-watched 08.00-09.30 and then walked part of the field and birded Belle Tout wood:
RDME & SM visited Whitbread Hollow

Red Throated Diver 13 (9E, 3W & 1 on sea)
Great Crested Grebe 3
Gannet 12 W
Grey Heron 1 W long way out to sea
Brent Goose 100 (97 E)
Wigeon 2E
Pintail 1 drake E
Common Scoter 6
Common Gull 250 in fields
Herring Gull 1 Scandinavian race on beach off Birling
Auk Sp. 183 (177W)
Guillemot 2
Razorbill 50 (42E)
Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 (1 B/T wood & 1 Hollow)
Skylark 50
Jay 2 calling inthe Hollow
Tree Creeper 2
Linnet 8

Field Mouse 1 in a bird nesting box in the Hollow


Scandinavian Herring Gull on the beach at Birling